Senior Design Systems Designer — AI-Driven UI & Tokens

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Pahokee (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Nike is seeking a Senior Digital Designer to join the Podium Design System team, a horizontal group across Nike Digital Product Design. You will design components, tokens, and guidance for Podium and collaborate with product teams to ensure consistency across experiences.

Reporting to the Senior Design Manager, you will mentor peers, drive strategic thinking, and help scale design systems with user research, usability testing, and workshops.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of end-to-end digital product design experience.
• Bachelor's degree in design or related field.
• Strong understanding of product thinking, interaction design and execution.
• Ability to deliver high-quality, end-to-end design solutions that uphold Nike's quality standards.
• Hands-on creative and systems thinker with strong UX/UI/IA design expertise.
• Demonstrated user-centric design approach and insights-based design process.
• Strong collaborator with product managers, engineers, writers, researchers and marketers.
• Experience working with consumer research and data.
• Design systems experience covering tokens, components and Figma code parity.
• AI fluency, including Cursor/agents and structured content for machine readability.

Responsibilities

• Design Podium Design System components, tokens, guidance, AI tooling and integrations into product domains.
• Drive strategic thinking and design execution across large-scope project tracks.
• Design polished work that represents the Nike brand and product experience through visual comps, wireframes, flows and prototypes.
• Own multiple product features for medium to large projects.
• Take proactive ownership at the edges of projects where requirements and design objectives are more ambiguous.
• Rapidly iterate and refine design concepts from initial briefing through final delivery.
• Work closely and collaboratively with a cross-functional team of producers, product managers, design operations, engineers, researchers and fellow designers, as well as product team partners who use and implement Podium.
• Develop design solutions using participatory and iterative techniques, including user interviews, observation, usability testing, validation, and design thinking brainstorms and workshops.
• Mentor and provide helpful feedback to fellow designers and interns to uplevel their craft and skills.
• Evangelise the Nike brand and drive initiatives that strengthen Nike's design culture internally.

Skills

End-to-end digital product design

Product thinking

Interaction design

UX/UI design

User research

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in design or related field

Tools

Figma

Design systems

React/TypeScript concepts

CSS variables / tokens

Job description

Nike is seeking a Senior Digital Designer to join the Podium Design System team, a horizontal group across Nike Digital Product Design. You will design components, tokens, and guidance for Podium and collaborate with product teams to ensure consistency across experiences.

Reporting to the Senior Design Manager, you will mentor peers, drive strategic thinking, and help scale design systems with user research, usability testing, and workshops.